Old Wounds Quotes

Life and love go on, let the music play.

Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed

The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity.

Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.

The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.

Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.

Oblivion cures the old wounds.

I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.